Catalan: nickname for someone with blond hair or a fair
complexion, from Latin russus.Swedish:
ornamental name from ros ‘rose’.Slovenian: nickname
from the dialect adjective ros ‘russet’, hence denoting a
person with russet-colored hair. Compare Rus 2.Slovenian
(Roš): probably also a nickname from roš, a
reduced form of rovaš ‘stick split lengthwise’, which was
used to keep accounts (by scoring or making notches in the
wood).Cambodian or other Southeast Asian: unexplained.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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